John Roselli

John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli (4 July 1905-9 August 1976), born Filippo Sacco, was a high-ranking Chicago Outfit member. Roselli was the Mafia's representative in Las Vegas during the 1950s and 1960s, having previously been involved in the Hollywood movie industry. In 1976, he was murdered for keeping an unfair share of Las Vegas profits, as well as for his alleged role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Biography
Filippo Sacco was born in Esperia, Lazio, Italy on 4 July 1905, and he moved to Somerville, Massachusetts in the United States in 1911. In 1922, he was arrested on narcotics charges, so he fled to Chicago, Illinois and changed his name to "John Roselli". He became a member of the Chicago Outfit, and Al Capone and Frank Nitti sent him to Los Angeles to oversee the racing wire and movie extortion operations of the Mafia there. During the 1940s, he earned millions by extorting the movie industry in Hollywood. From 1942 to 1943, Roselli served in the US Army, but his military career ended with his arrest in 1943. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but he was released in 1947. During the 1950s, he shifted his attention to the fast-growing and highly profitable gambling mecca of Las Vegas, Nevada, becoming the mob's chief representative there by 1956. During the early 1960s, he was contacted by the CIA about assassinating Cuban leader Fidel Castro, but attempts to poison Castro with poison pills failed.

Downfall
From 1975 to 1976, Roselli was called to testify about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; during the 1990s, it was claimed that Roselli had shot Kennedy from a storm drain, and that he had turned the anti-Castro squad of mobsters against Kennedy. Around this time, he also kept an unfair share of the Outfit's profits from Las Vegas, and his family hated him for his greed and his liability as an interviewee about Kennedy's murder. On 9 August 1976, his decomposing and dissected body was found in a 55-gallon steel drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami, Florida.